Date: Sun, 13 Jul 1997 13:12:31 -0500 (EST) From: John Fieber <jfieber@indiana.edu> To: Chuck Robey <chuckr@Glue.umd.edu> Cc: Randall Hopper <rhh@ct.picker.com>, Nathan Dorfman <nathan@senate.org>, FreeBSD-Hackers <FreeBSD-Hackers@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: upgrading XFree86 Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970713130020.318B-100000@fallout.campusview.indiana.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970713130203.256C-100000@Journey2.mat.net>
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On Sun, 13 Jul 1997, Chuck Robey wrote: > On Sun, 13 Jul 1997, Randall Hopper wrote: > > > Chuck Robey: > > |I want to upgrade my XFree86 to 3.3, but I have a ton of stuff in my > > |existing /usr/X11R6 ... does anyone know if XFree86 can be upgraded via an > > |overlay? Otherwise, this's gonna be the upgrade from hell ... > > > > I know what you mean. For the same reason we compile non-X ports into > > /usr/local, I'd sure like to see our X ports compiled for /usr/local/X11. > > This'd be pretty difficult, I think, because of imake's very incestuous > relationship with the X11R6 tree. It would be a fantastic win, but I just > don't think it'd be possible. Some time ago I tried in vain to get things to work outside of /usr/X11R6. However, the imake stuff has changed quite a bit in the last couple releases---I discovered this when trying to re-compile Motif 2.0 with R6.3. There were a quite a few improvements, some of which might be helpful. However, I start feeling homicidal if I work with imake too long so I would encourage someone else to revisit the issue. :) Have a look at http://www.primate.wisc.edu/software/imake-stuff/ for some useful information about recent changes. -john
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